Beyond Rhythm Guitar, Pratt Simon, Alexander Joseph

• Do you struggle to overcome the issues affecting your true speed potential?
• Do you need an authentic method to emulate the picking style of Neo-Classical guitar masters like Yngwie Malmsteen and Ritchie Blackmore?
• Do you want to build flawless picking technique on guitar?
• Do you want to master a system built on innovative solutions to common problems?
• Are you worried that you may not be reaching your true potential?

Neoclassical Speed Strategies for Guitar is the result of 27 years studying the Neoclassical guitar styles of one of the most influential pickers in guitar history. These principles will help you develop perfect guitar technique for any style.

You'll master picking biomechanics, technique, theory and hundreds of licks to turn you into a shred guitar monster.

Here's What You Get:

• A complete guitar picking course that starts from the first principles of movement and works around your own unique body mechanics, illustrated in detail.
• A multi-faceted system used by some of the best guitarists in the world to build incredible, efficient picking technique and devastating speed on guitar
• Inventive exercises that combine shifting scale lines, sequences, single-string phrases and string-changing mechanics.
• Concise, developmental picking drills and studies forming a clear, incremental path to speed-picking mastery

Bonus One: A definitive section dedicated to Neo-Classical scale choice, theory and application

Bonus Two: 18 musical studies to build speed, fluency and Neo-Classical vocabulary

Are you Hitting a Brick Wall in your Quest for Ultimate Speed Picking on Guitar?

Speed is not about natural ability. It's not about mindless practice, and it's certainly not about luck. Playing fast starts with a method that will unleash your true potential.

Neo-Classical Speed Strategies for Guitar is about breaking barriers, systemising strengths, and helping you overcome the common hurdles of speed picking by analysing a true icon of shred guitar.

By understanding motion and mechanics, picking orientation and pathways, and by implementing strategies conducive to economical and effortless speed, you'll break free of the issues that have held you back in the past.

Part technical compendium and part Artist style-file, Neo-Classical Speed Strategies for Guitar brings together mechanical solutions and stylistic vocabulary, with 93 musical examples ranging from drills to etudes.

All examples are delivered authentically in downloadable audio.

You won't just learn to play fast on guitar, you'll learn to pick perfectly...

This product is not associated with or endorsed by Yngwie Malmsteen.

• How to play with ease and efficiency
• Practical exercises to achieve good posture and avoid muscle strain and injury
• Perfect finger, hand, wrist and arm movement
• How to relax hand muscles effectively and still achieve great tone
• The correct fingering for all scales and arpeggios
• The counterintuitive technique needed to play flourishes of notes at lightning speed

Clear diagrams throughout the book will ensure you avoid the mistakes many pianists make. You'll also learn the techniques you've heard professional pianists use to introduce light and shade into their playing, and to create exciting or reflective moods.

This is a practical book packed, packed with useful exercises distilled over many years of teaching, to refine your technique and make you the best pianist you can be.

• Strike and release exercises to build finger strength and independence
• Exercises to master legato and staccato technique
• Introduce light and shade into your playing using one simple technique
• Switch effortlessly between 1/18 note and 1/16th note passages
• Master complete left- and right-hand independence

There's more In the process of crafting your technical skills, you'll learn every major and minor scale and key arpeggios. You'll also learn how to apply these techniques to the pieces you are working on.

Make quicker progress by learning the right way to practice, and how to have a productive practice session - every time. You'll also discover a proven method for learning new pieces

Over 140 studio-quality audio examples will help you hear how every exercise should sound.

Buy it now and perfect your piano technique

100 Modern Jazz Licks for Piano is so much more than a book of licks It's a doorway into the minds of the most innovative jazz pianists ever recorded...

• Learn the style of 10 modern jazz piano giants
• Master 10 genre-defining piano licks for each player
• Combine and personalize jazz vocabulary into your own unique style
• Discover extensive biographies and essential discographies for every player

100 Modern Jazz Licks for Piano will lift your playing to new heights.

We can learn only so much from transcriptions, so this book goes one further by explaining the harmonic and melodic concepts used by the jazz piano masters. You'll build an intimate knowledge of the theory and techniques that fuel their musical creativity. In fact, you'll get years of insight condensed into one powerful resource.

Learn genre-defining piano lines in the style of:

Bud Powell - Oscar Peterson - Thelonious Monk - George Shearing - Bill Evans - McCoy Tyner - Herbie Hancock - Chick Corea - Keith Jarrett - Brad Mehldau -

• 100 jazz piano licks in the style of 10 essential jazz pianists
• Explanations of the theory and techniques that help you get behind the licks
• Playing advice and breakdown of every lick, from fingering to application
• A complete study piece in the style of Keith Jarrett that will help you to construct your own solos
• Perfectly notated examples with studio-quality audio to download for free

Bonus: Essential listening tips for each pianist - learn from their seminal recordings

Bonus: Tips on phrasing, articulation and how to make each lick your own

Each player in this book fundamentally changed the sound of jazz piano through their innovations. More than a collection of licks, you'll receive a history lesson on the development of jazz piano - from the ground-breaking bebop of Bud Powell to the advanced contrapuntal harmonies of Brad Mehldau.

Along with mastering 100 exciting jazz piano licks, you'll learn a complete solo in the style of arch-improviser Keith Jarrett. This is a master class in melodic improvisation for those who truly want to learn jazz piano.

100 studio-quality audio examples help you hear how each lick should sound. You'll get inside the music and quickly learn to apply each every new idea to any musical situation.

Buy it now and take your jazz piano playing to new heights.